Comments on: PS/2: the beginning of the end of the IBM PC

By: Jamie Dolan

Jamie Dolan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:28:39 +0000

It was even more expensive than I thought, here is the upgrade option from the 24 GB that comes in that model “192GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1066MHz, ECC (12 DIMMS) [add $22,150.00]”

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:28:37 +0000

192 GB! Wow!

By: Jan-Christoph Gack

Jan-Christoph Gack — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:26:51 +0000

Apple Mac Pro w/ huge amount of RAM, several extremely fast SSDs, several CPUs, Fiberglass etc. 🙂

By: Durant Imboden

Durant Imboden — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:26:50 +0000

I spent about six grand in 1982 for an IBM PC with a monochrome monitor and single-sided 5-1/4″ floppy drives, a NEC Spinwriter 3550 printer, and a copy of WordStar. It was expensive, but then again, I’d paid $1,000 for an IBM Correcting Selectric Typewriter a few years earlier, and being able to edit a book manuscript without retyping a few hundred pages by hand made the $6,000 investment worthwhile.

By: Jamie Dolan

Jamie Dolan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:26:49 +0000

I don’t have to imagine, I was on dell the other week looking at custom configs. I’d be able to get a workstation with multipl SSD’s and 192GB of ram! Along with multiple large monitors. I think the system I specked out was about 19,000.

By: David Stinemetze

David Stinemetze — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:26:48 +0000

Wow. I’d almost have enough money to buy a Mac with that.

By: brettski111

brettski111 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:54:04 +0000

@pingdom I remember never being able to find drivers for it #PS/2

By: justinhaglund

justinhaglund — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:50:24 +0000

@pingdom YES – my first PC!

By: idolayouts

idolayouts — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:49:36 +0000

@pingdom I do!

By: Bach

Bach — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:45:22 +0000

When IBM sold its PC section to Lenovo some years ago, I took it as a sign that IBM PC is going to the end.